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New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 77, 17 October 1874, Page 10

About one hundred and six boys are born to every one hundred girls in Europe. Only 24. G-erman doctors reach the age of 70, as against 32 military men and 42 theologians. The pretty rice paper that looks so pure and delicate is made in China from the pith of a tree ; not at all as we make paper from poplar wood, but by simply cutting it into thin slices. And thousands of years before Moses was born, the Egyptians made paper from tho great papyrus, or paper reed, by carefully peeling out tho tlain layer between the bark and the fleshly stem, and pressing and diying the pieces into sheets. Gharles Macklin, the celebrated actor, appeared in the character of Shyloch when in his 100 th year. He* died in 1797, having reached 107 years. ( , About £300,000 is paid yearly 1 for false hair in England alone. In England there is one soldier to every 229 inhabitants ; in Russia, 77 ; in Holland/ 142 j and in Austria, 118.